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Toujours

Dress
1911 (designed)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Grey velvet dress trimmed with purple, beige and black grosgrain ribbons. The dress is a t-shaped tunic with bands of ribbon forming a vest inside the round neck. It has cuffs on the elbow length sleeves and a cuff just above the hem of the ankle length skirt. The high waist is marked by a purple ribbon covering a silver cord drawstring. The dress is unlined and the vest fastens inside the neck with hooks and eyes.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleToujours (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Silk velvet with grosgrain ribbons and silver cord
Brief description
'Toujours' dress, velvet with grosgrain ribbons, Paul Poiret, French, 1911
Physical description
Grey velvet dress trimmed with purple, beige and black grosgrain ribbons. The dress is a t-shaped tunic with bands of ribbon forming a vest inside the round neck. It has cuffs on the elbow length sleeves and a cuff just above the hem of the ankle length skirt. The high waist is marked by a purple ribbon covering a silver cord drawstring. The dress is unlined and the vest fastens inside the neck with hooks and eyes.
Dimensions
  • Height: 1700mm (Note: Display footprint (as mounted).)
  • Width: 650mm (Note: Display footprint (as mounted).)
  • Depth: 600mm (Note: Display footprint (as mounted).)
  • Circumference of hat circumference: 56.6cm
  • Length of hat from base to point but it was not worn stiffly pointed length: 55cm
  • Width of blanck and white brim of hat width: 10.6cm
Production typeHaute couture
Marks and inscriptions
'TOUJOURS / 1911' (Written on a patch of cotton and crudely stitched into hem of dress, probably by Denise Poiret)
Credit line
Given by Mme. Boulet-Poiret
Object history
From the collection of Mme Poiret
Collection
Accession number
T.387-1976

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Record createdOctober 4, 2007
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